4 miler

On Thanksgiving Day, Sophie and I ran the Flying Feathers 4 miler in Dublin. I had been "training" for this for a couple of months and had gotten to run periodically to a 3 mile run and just thought to myself, well I'll just walk the rest. The day of the race was very, very cold, but it was so exciting to be with these 1000's of people all gearing up for the race. The race started and Sophie, who's just so fit and in shape, is pumping me up with excitement, she's just contagious with it! Well, I tell her to go on ahead of me within the first 1/2 mile, I'm a very slow jogger and I know I'm slowing down her speed. So I just truck along, la te da and next thing I know I'm a the 1 mile mark!! So I walk for about a half a second until I realize I'm not that tired, so I go on, and there's the 2 mile marker!! Still not too tired, I walk for about 1-2 minutes and then go on jogging again, it went like that until the end, I only walked probably a quarter of a mile!! And jogged the rest, I could NOT believe it! It had to be the adrenaline and the fact that kids around 9-10 were jogging it too.

I was hurting later, my knees were so sore but overall I felt really good and very happy! We ended up going to my Tanya's for dinner that afternoon and then Sophie's later in the evening. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving!